Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impressive segment of the high command of the Republic of Korea's navy descended on Harvard yesterday for an unannounced informal visit. Vice Admiral Joung Kuk Mo, Korean Chief of Naval Operations (left) and Commodore Lee III Jung, Commander in Chief of the Fleet, were among the officers who took a quick look at the University...
...greater admirer than the President. When the political demands for Adams' removal go up-Ike is likely to snort: "The trouble with those people is they don't understand integrity." And once, to a friend, President Eisenhower paid Adams the highest compliment at his command. "The only person who really understands what I am trying to do," said the President of the U.S., "is Sherman Adams...
Next biggest item is building rent ($62 million), although Korea has more U.N.-built building space (some 20 million sq. ft. of it) than the U.N. Command is being asked to pay for. Rhee asks $60.8 million for transportation, although the U.N. has supplied his rickety rail system with 45 locomotives, 1,696 pieces of rolling stock, enough rails, switches and crossties for 1,811 miles of track. The U.N. has also built 2,138 miles of Korean highway, 525 bridges. Though Rhee asks $38.6 million for electricity, U.N. generating barges at Pusan and Inchon pump unmetered quantities of electricity...
...Spellman laid the cornerstone of a new Catholic church in Tokyo and contributed $5,000 to help complete it before flying on to Korea for his fifth consecutive Christmas with the troops. Dr. Blake, traveling in the personal plane of Lieut. General Glenn O. Barcus of the Northeast Air Command, with the general himself at the controls, stopped at Labrador and Greenland en route to Thule (700 miles from the North Pole) to deliver Christmas Day sermons...
...wrote the script as well as the play (a hit in London) on which it is based, has perhaps not thought long enough about what makes people weak or strong, bad or good, split or whole. The interrogator in the picture has the resources of the state at his command. At no point, however, does the cardinal seem to get any help from the spiritual realm-indeed, there is little evidence that he seriously asks for God's help, or tries with any genuine religious understanding to commend his spirit into God's hands. He just goes...